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The Horse (馬, 駿/午 – boy)

Since the number of babies whose names contain 午 are too small, these names will not be shown in the data.

馬

Kanji

Romaji

2001

2002

2003

Percentages

01-02

02-03

拓馬

Takuma

130

224

63

0.066%

0.168%

0.049%

152.532%

-70.746%

翔馬

Shōma

120

174

66

0.061%

0.130%

0.051%

112.511%

-60.547%

颯馬

Sōma

92

146

59

0.047%

0.109%

0.046%

132.583%

-57.967%

和馬

Kazuma

76

145

44

0.039%

0.109%

0.034%

179.619%

-68.437%

悠馬

Yūma

66

141

58

0.034%

0.106%

0.045%

213.103%

-57.214%

一馬

Kazuma

46

131

30

.0235%

0.098%

.0234%

317.375%

-76.180%

楓馬

Fūma

38

45

19

0.019%

0.034%

0.015%

73.557%

-56.083%

佑馬

Yūma

38

46

14

0.019%

0.034%

0.011%

77.414%

-68.344%

The name highlighted in yellow doesn’t exhibit the ‘rise up, fall below’ pattern. Instead, it exhibits a result showing that the name rose up and fell down but when it fell down in the year after the year of the Horse, the percentage is above where it was in the year before the year of the Horse.

駿

Kanji

Romaji

2001

2002

2003

Percentages

01-02

02-03

駿

Shun

678

770

258

0.346%

0.576%

0.201%

66.446%

-65.149%

駿介

Shunsuke

270

353

125

0.138%

0.264%

0.097%

91.612%

-63.168%

駿斗

Hayato

124

127

62

0.063%

0.095%

0.048%

50.105%

-49.222%

駿太

Shunta

116

188

79

0.059%

0.141%

0.062%

137.527%

-56.292%

駿佑

Shunsuke

92

97

35

0.047%

0.073%

0.027%

54.524%

-62.469%

駿平

Shunpei

76

75

23

0.039%

0.056%

0.018%

44.631%

-68.103%

駿也

Shun’ya

62

59

26

0.032%

0.044%

0.020%

39.467%

-54.164%

駿一

Shun’ichi

44

40

9

0.022%

0.030%

0.007%

33.235%

-76.597%

駿輔

Shunsuke

44

56

26

0.022%

0.042%

0.020%

86.530%

-51.708%

駿之介

Shun’nosuke

42

41

13

0.021%

0.031%

0.010%

43.069%

-67.020%

駿太郎

Shuntarō

32

72

21

0.016%

0.054%

0.016%

229.758%

-69.663%

On this table, the name highlighted in yellow exhibits the result as the one on the first table. Overall, the results show that the zodiacal kanji used in the year of the Horse, excluding 午 for the reason show at the beginning of this sub-page, had shown a ‘rise up, fall below’ pattern in a majority of names.

The next year of the Horse was 2014. There is a post that I made back in July which includes the bit at the end mentioning the reason for 駿’s rise to the top 10 and 蒼馬’s huge rise to the top 100. In the link provided at the sources section, you can see, at the beginning of the article explaining last year’s naming trends, a table displaying names containing 駿 and 馬 with last year’s rankings at the far left column and 2013’s rankings at the far right.

As the 2015 rankings will not be released until next year, this is what we have. So, if the 2015 rankings from Tamahiyo are out, this sub-post will be updated with the results pointing out whether the ‘rise up, fall below’ pattern is exhibited in 2014.